This image of The Slits by photographer Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82.
But does this mean that a member of the band actually lived in SE14 at the time? I once saw former Slits guitarist Viv Albertine playing at a party at Sanford housing co-op (in 2011) and bassist Tessa Pollitt DJ at Goldsmiths (2019) But did either one of them or singer Ari Up actually live in this part of London for a while? For the sake of my completist SE14 obsession would love to know more.
Update: in her autobiography, 'Clothes, clothes, clothes; music, music, music; boys, boys, boys', Viv Albertine mentions that soon after the band split up she went 'to evening classes at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, to learn how to read music, practise playing guitar and develop my ear'
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